D. antarctica, Antarctic hairgrass, is the only natural grass colonized in the
Antarctic, the most severe natural habitats in the world especially for terrestrial
plants. This species has been the subject of many fields of biological studies: ecology,
taxonomy, anatomy, physiology, biochemistry and molecular biology aimed at understanding
the effect of global climate change on terrestrial ecosystem and genetic basis for
adaptation under varying environmental stresses. Here we present the sequencing and
analysis of transcriptomes of D. antarctica grown under various stress conditions. This
transcriptome dataset provides valuable genetic resources for non-model species and for
gene discovery associated with stress-tolerance.